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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. Short detached notes - as opposed to legato.
Ensemble
Concert master
Atonal
Staccato
2. A direction to play lively and fast.
Pentatonic Scale
Verismo
Leading note
Allegro
3. A rhythmic succession of musical tones - a melody for instruments and voices.
March
Song cycle
Fugue
Tune
4. A musical composition that has a romantic or dreamy character with nocturnal associations.
Requiem
Partial
Drone
Nocturne
5. Pertaining to the sonata form - a fast movement in triple time.
March
Vibrato
Cadence
Scherzo
6. The tonal characteristics determined by the relationship of the notes to the tone.
Tonality
Hymn
Cadence
Twelve-tone music
7. A repeating phrase that is played at the end of each verse in the song.
Refrain
Ornaments
Interpretation
Klangfarbenmelodie
8. A composition written for eight instruments.
Ricercar
Octet
Fifth
Musette
9. The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds.
Quintet
Rhythm
Ostinato
Pitch
10. A symbol indicating to play loud.
Recital
Relative major and minor
Forte
Choir
11. A song or hymn celebrating Christmas.
Form
Carol
Interval
Movement
12. One who directs a group of performers. The conductor indicates the tempo - phrasing - dynamics - and style by gestures and facial expressions.
Energico
Glee
Sequence
Conductor
13. A piece of music written for two vocalists or instrumentalists.
Tritone
Duet
Gregorian Chant
Partial
14. A mild glissando between two notes for an expressive effect.
Portamento
Polyphony
Register
Tutti
15. Pleasing combination of two or three tones played together in the background while a melody is being played. Harmony also refers to the study of chord progressions.
Scherzo
Harmony
Relative major and minor
Tessitura
16. Where the musical themes and melodies are developed - written in sonata form.
Development
Time Signature
Quartet
EnharmonicInterval
17. Atonal and violent style used as a means of evoking heightened emotions and states of mind.
Carol
Time Signature
Expressionism
Portamento
18. String instruments that are picked instead of bowed.
Triplet
Duet
Pizzicato
Vibrato
19. The element of music pertaining to time - played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beats.
Romantic
Recital
Espressivo
Rhythm
20. Suite of Baroque dances.
Fugue
Partita
Drone
Prelude
21. Direction to performer to play a composition in a brisk - lively - and spirited manner.
Chromatic scale
Vivace
Obbligato
Elegy
22. The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to produce an usual tone color.
Register
Rondo
Scordatura
Monotone
23. A melodic or - sometimes a harmonic idea presented in a musical form.
Relative major and minor
Root
Minuet
Theme
24. Passage for the entire ensemble or orchestra without a soloist.
Tutti
Hymn
Polyphony
Opus
25. A sequence of chords that brings an end to a phrase - either in the middle or the end of a composition.
Reed
Cadence
Tremolo
Monotone
26. Word to indicate that the movement or entire composition is to be played smoothly.
Chromatic scale
Trill
Form
Legato
27. Word to indicate that the movement or entire composition is to be played smoothly.
Cantata
Temperament
Classicism
Legato
28. Creating variation pitch in a note by quickly alternating between notes.
Da Capo
Soprano
EnharmonicInterval
Vibrato
29. Word to indicate the movement or entire composition is to be played very slow and serious.
Triple time
Parody
Carol
Grave
30. A musical scale having five notes.For example: the five black keys of a keyboard make up a pentatonic scale.
Quintet
Pentatonic Scale
String Quartet
Harmony
31. Primary theme or subject that is developed.
Grandioso
Romantic
Motif
Cadenza
32. A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
Tonality
Sequence
Adagio
Phrase
33. A set of five musicians who perform a composition written for five parts.
Quintet
Grave
Glissando
Requiem
34. Indicating speed.
Tempo
Motif
Parody
Key signature
35. A direction to play lively and fast.
Allegro
Trio
Grave
Legato
36. A harmonic given off by a note when it is played.
Grazioso
Counterpoint
Homophony
Partial
37. A period in history during the 18th and early 19th centuries where the focus shifted from the neoclassical style to an emotional - expressive - and imaginative style.
Accessible
Clef
Chamber music
Romantic
38. Successive notes of a key or mode either ascending or descending.
A cappella
Classicism
Tablature
Scale
39. A style of male singing where by partial use of the vocal chords - the voice is able to reach the pitch of a female.
Ensemble
Falsetto
Sonatina
Cavatina
40. A hymn sung by the choir and congregation often in unison.
Neoclassical
Chorale
Expressionism
Octave
41. The principal note of a triad.
Root
Classicism
Tuning
Reed
42. Two or three melodic lines played at the same time.
Symphony
Whole note
Leitmotif
Counterpoint
43. A composition written for three voices and instruments performed by three people
Encore
Chorus
Reprise
Trio
44. A line in a contrapuntal work performed by an individual voice or instrument.
Part
Drone
EnharmonicInterval
Octet
45. Eight full tones above the key note where the scale begins and ends.
Octave
Pentatonic Scale
Parody
Song cycle
46. A rhythmic succession of musical tones - a melody for instruments and voices.
Overture
Tune
EnharmonicInterval
Tonality
47. A glissando or portamento. Also refers to the moving part of a trombone.
Ornaments
Resonance
Major
Slide
48. Sliding between two notes.
Glissando
Parody
Drone
Development
49. Pertaining to the fugue - the overlapping of the same theme or motif by two or more voices a few beats apart.
Stretto
Rubato
Cantata
Clavier
50. The highest female voice.
Soprano
Elegy
Relative major and minor
Libretto
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